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Month: July 2013

  • My new post on Virgil Finlay for Tor.com

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    I’m happy to report that I’ve contributed my second post to the Tor.com website. I wrote for them on May on the Fleisher Superman Cartoons. In the new article, The Dark and Light of Virgil Finlay, I give an overview of the great science fiction, fantasy and horror illustrator who had such an impact on…

  • Old Masters, Newly Acquired at the Morgan

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    Old Masters, Newly Acquired is an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York that showcases recent additions to their terrific collection of master drawings. You can get an idea of the scope of the show from the brochure preview on the museum’s page for the exhibit. There is also a selection of…

  • Dennis Wojtkiewicz (update)

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    Since I first wrote about Ohio painter Dennis Wojtkiewicz (pronounced voy-KEV-itch) back in 2006, he has continued his large scale explorations of light and texture. These take the form of close ups of the heads of spreading, multi-petaled flowers, radiant with light cascading across their delicately rendered surfaces, and luminous depictions of fruit — unusual…

  • My article for the Summer 2013 issue of Drawing Magazine

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    I was delighted recently to have the opportunity to write a feature article for the Summer 2013 issue of Drawing Magazine. As of this writing the issue is available from the North Light Store, and should be in bookstores and newsstands shortly. The article, Illustrating Imaginary Worlds, highlights four contemporary illustrators who work in the…

  • Hubert Robert

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    Early in his career, eighteenth century French painter Hubert Robert fell under the spell of the ruins of ancient Rome — their scale, suggestions of past grandeur and contrast with his modern times. Partly this was from his own experience while living in rome for eleven years, and partly from exposure to the similar fascination…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Eakins sculls

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    The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), Thomas Eakins In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link. One of Eakins’ fascinating exercises in river surface perspective on the Schuylkill River here in Philadelphia. This area of the river is still commonly used for sculling, though the bridges and the banks of…